Twice this has happened in the last week or so.

Live TV kicks out to the KnoppMyth menu (like if you hit ESC and exit KnoppMyth you get X).

Reboot the system and I see:

INIT: id "c7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

The first time a simple reboot and it went away.

But this time, it's not.

I've not changed any Nvidia drivers or anything (maybe that's the problem).

Here's what my xorg.log shows (at the end):



I've tried turning off APCI (no difference). Do I need to update the video card drivers? The process seems a bit daunting (one thread says to do it one way and another is all bits and pieces and says to do it a diff. way).

I've even tried changing the xorg.conf to say "vesa" instead of "nvidia" but that doesn't make any difference.

I think I shall stick my head in the oven now.

I got this problem AFTER I updated my nVidia drivers on an R5E50 updated machine.

I reinstalled the drivers and it went away but now my 0.2 Air2PC capture card doesn't work. I'm getting ready to just slick the whole box and start over fresh.

I was tweaking my xorg.conf file for my TV and after a reboot I ran in to this problem. Fortunately, I had only changed one thing so I knew what to disable. I had added this line:


After commenting it out. I did not have the "respawning" problem.

Of note, I have not updated my NVIDIA drivers. XvMC seems to be working ok for me so I have not tried to upgrade.

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-William
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Knoppmyth R6, ASUS P5B, Core 2 Duo E6700, HD 1TB Seagate, 2Gb DDR2, Nvidia 6600GT, Fusion HDTV lite 5, pcHDTV HD-3000

Well ironically after the 5th reboot it's all fine now.

How strange is that?

If I had the "definitive" steps for upgrading the video card drivers, I would attempt it (actually got stuff backed up so I guess I'll try it anyway).

I see two diff. threads on upgrading the drivers and it seems to be quite a nasty process.

Suddenly, my system too fell victim to the dreaded:

INIT: id "c7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

Rebooting numerous times doesn't seem to have helped. My xorg.conf file is unchanged. The hardware seems to be fine -- as a test, I did a fresh install to another hard drive and that comes up just fine.
The graphics are just an integrated i810, and this is all with KM 5E50.

It is just a test system, but I am wondering what the root cause could be? or what is a less disruptive (than a new auto-install) way to recover?

I made a half-hearted attempt at doing a knoppmyth backup, from the working installation. And then tried to untar the backup file over top of the drive that was suffering from the "respawning" problem. After that i never really got it going, so I gave in and reloaded everything from CD.

EDIT / UPDATE : After another fresh software install from CD, the next day when I booted up my whole hda1 partition was messed up. So, in my particular case, I think I was suffering from some sort of hardware failure... Probably a bad a hard disk.

I did finally get the problem to go away by upgrading the video card drivers (I did finally figure out the steps).

Of course, after upgrading the video card drivers, after the 2nd reboot, it trashed my SQL database, so I reinstalled all from scratch. Haven't had it happen again.

I had this EXACT thing happen to me last night during the painful nvida upgrade process.

I was following this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=
and after the nvidia driver scirpt finished and I rebooted, I started getting the "INIT: id "c7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. " message. I was so scared that I had hosed my system up.

In a panic, I went back to the thread and found my solution near the bottom of page 1.
MrFahrenheit posted that he had to run the following commands:

update-rc.d -f install-nvidia-debian remove
update-rc.d -f nvidia-glx remove
update-rc.d -f nvidia-kernel remove

and then re-run the nvidia driver script.

After a reboot, all worked.

I wonder why the person who started the thread didn't have the "id c7" happen to him??? It is certainly happening to many others!

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

I have seen this error message twice during my tweaking of xorg.conf or XF86Config-4.

The problem, in my particular case, was that my text-editing was being done on a Mac, and apparently the different line-wrap and end-of-line functions in the Mac text editor caused Linux to barf up X. Once I edited using a Linux-based text editor (actually, I edited using the File Manager in Webmin), everything was fine.

-sTv

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R7.3 Backend
CPU: 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)

Kinda off-topic, but if you want to edit on your Mac and retain proper line endings, use the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones software:

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

If you do a Save As you have options for either Mac, DOS, or Unix style line breaks.